At the time, there were very few foreign names in the press and they were all factory workers. I thought I'd never get a job at a university with a foreign name.
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I do not want to name any individual names, but I felt like when I was working in Hollywood, there were some fellow colleagues of mine who didn't even look me in the eyes because I was Asian.
If my name had not been cleared, it would have been difficult, perhaps impossible, to continue as a journalist.
The interesting thing about history sometimes. is that you know these people existed, and you knew what jobs they did, but you don't know much about them as people, so you actually have to make them up.
My own career started in New York at the 'Associated Press', a fast-paced news agency where we rarely had time for deep reporting.
I was a foreign correspondent in Berlin in the mid-'90s.
I think if you look at the failure of journalism in the modern age, then I don't want to be called a journalist.
Actually, I graduated from university as a journalist.
A lot of names in America and Europe have their roots in Latin and Greek words. A lot of them go back to archetypes and their stories.
I didn't work for any newspapers in college, never worked for any newspaper before 'The Washington Post'.
I know somebody from university who's called Phil Collins, and I think there's something terribly unfortunate about sharing a name with somebody who either is famous or becomes famous.
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